A
collection of personal funeral portraits commissioned
by the artist. The project started when his grandmother passed
away in Obosi, Nigeria. Unable to make the funeral due to distance
the artist pondered on how he could keep an important visual record
of the event in his absence. He decided to commission members
of his family to take portraits of the deceased on his behalf
for whenever he could not attend a funeral.

The often grainy portraits represent an attempt to overcome boundaries, distance and circumstances by using common digital technology, where the images aesthetics are secondary to the primary mode
of capture. The
title of the series is based on a conversation the artist had
with a member of his family about a funeral to whom the only words
he could reply were: